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  • Ben Cooper Lives!

    Ben Cooper Lives!

    Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Who remembers Ben Cooper Halloween costumes: Visit countdowntohalloween.blogspot.comfor links to other great blogs celebrating!

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  • Halloween One-Sheets

    Halloween One-Sheets

    Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Yesterday I hung my three movie posters for the month of October: Visit countdowntohalloween.blogspot.comfor links to other great blogs celebrating!

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  • Limited Edition Fanta Collection

    Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Today’s video takes a quick look at the Fanta Limited Edition Collection: Visit countdowntohalloween.blogspot.comfor links to other great blogs celebrating!

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  • Universal Monsters Comic Books

    Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Today’s video takes a quick look at the Universal Monsters series of comic books from Skybound Entertainment, in association with Image Comics: Visit countdowntohalloween.blogspot.comfor links to other great blogs celebrating!

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  • When Life Gives You Tomatoes

    Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Today’s video… and the rest of the Countdown… is going to be a little different from what I anticipated… But it’s not going to end! Hear what I’m talking about in today’s video on @ClassicHorrorsTV: Visit countdowntohalloween.blogspot.comfor links to other great blogs celebrating!

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  • Birth of a Monster… & a Genre

    Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Remember, when we designate films before 1931 as horror, we are doing it retroactively. Before Frankenstein, horror was an ambiguous emotion or element, not a marketing category. Instead, at the time, these movies were referred to as, fantastic, mysterious, or weird. They relied on atmospheric terror and…

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  • The First Horror Film

    The First Horror Film

    Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Many consider the first horror film to be the 1896 French short by Georges Melies, The House of the Devil, aka The Haunted Castle.) In its three-minute running time, Mephistopheles conjures a variety of supernatural characters from a magic cauldron. It features skeletons, ghosts, bats, and the…

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  • The Genre Trap

    The Genre Trap

    Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. The genre trap is dangerous. If we rely too much on labels, instead of the movies themselves, we’re either going to be misled into watching something we don’t like, or worse, not watch something we’d love. For someone like me who’s obsessed with placing everything into compartments…

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  • Horror Movies are a Celebration of… Life

    Welcome to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. When I tell most people I’m a horror movie fan, they respond with the look of someone who’s, well, watching a horror movie. “Those are too gory for me!” they say. I then feel like I have to explain, “Oh, I don’t like the gory stuff. I like…

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  • Slaughter High (1985)

    Slaughter High (1985)

    It’s April Fool’s day at Slaughter High (1986) and Carol (the 35-year-old, but still lovely, student, Caroline Munro) leads poor Marty (Simon Scuddamore) into the locker room for a cruel prank that turns bad. Later that day in the science lab, Chekov’s beaker full of nitric acid wobbles on a shelf and Marty uses a…

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